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| Category: | Fantasy
Traditional Art
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Posted: | August 24, 2012 |
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Artist Notes
In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural: rusalki ) was a female ghost, water nymph , mermaid that dwelled in a waterway. According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerize them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.
Though in some versions of the myth, their eyes shine like green fire, others describe them with extremely pale and translucent skin, and no visible pupils. Her hair is sometimes depicted as green or golden, and often perpetually wet. The Rusalka could not live long on dry land. In most versions, the rusalka is an unquiet dead being, associated with the "unclean force" - people who die violently and before their time, such as young women who commit suicide because they have been jilted by their lovers, or unmarried women who are pregnant, must live out their designated time on earth as a spirit. The ghostly version is the soul of a young woman who had died in or near a river or a lake and came back to haunt that waterway. This undead rusalka is not invariably malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged.
Rusalka is also the title of the opera by the Czech composer AntonÃn DvoÅ?ák.
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dragifortuna
Dragifortuna was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She attended the University of Ljubljana, postgraduate studies from chemical science and graduated from economics.
After retirement, attended lectures at the Academy of fine arts and design in Ljubljana, and attended the advanced courses in drawing and painting.
In the paintings reflects an optimist by nature and leon by horoscope.
She practices drawing by pastel, painting by acryl and mixed technique, she occupy oneself with photography and digital art. She is currently devoted to her passion for encaustic paintings.
She presenting her art works at individual and collective exhibitions at home and abroad.
My web site:
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